144. Managing Stage Volume

All right.

Well, here we are, James.

Are we, you know, is this to cage or uncage your drummer?

Yeah.

Well, I tell people, where do we put animals? In a cage.

So sometimes the drummer gets put in a cage.

I

was going to say that that was a musician joke right there.

I didn't have sound effects, you know, you know.

queued up there, but drummers by far are not the only culprits.

In fact, most of my early career, it was those stinking monitor wedges, which I could control, but they still gave me all kinds of grief.

Today, with in-ears, that's become less of an issue, obviously, but stage volume is And, you know, acoustical noise in a space, if you will, continues to be a problem.

And so let's, you know, kind of kind of tackle that today.

Like I said, we didn't want to become the the anti drummer show.

But let's start with, you know, literally the elephant in the room or probably the biggest instrument in the room.

If you know, if you have an acoustic drum set that's out there.

And let's just hit it right where it's at and talk about how can we get that under control? And maybe if I set a scenario here, James, it'll probably be easier.

Sure, let's do it.

You've got a 250-seat room that is pretty active acoustically, right? Maybe it's an old traditional A-frame church with a wood ceiling.

or whatever, and it was built for congregational singing and organ and choir and so forth.

So the natural acoustics in it aren't bad, but they're probably not made for a drum set, something that's a loud instrument or a guitar cabinet, etc.

So I have this space, and I find on a Sunday morning that I'm always trying to put things over top of, you know, the drums,

you know, and

I'll just pick on drums for this, but it could be the guitar or electric guitar or whatever, but I'm, you know, it, The faders for drums on my console are at zero or way down.

I have them in there just a little bit so people listening online at least know there's a drum set there.